Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 2 | It will thus be dusted with successive batches of pollen as they mature and will deliver them to other flowers on different individual plants elsewhere in its territory . |
| 3 | The present research involves making extensive video recordings in the homes of eight carefully selected families and submitting them to various forms of analysis . |
| 4 | One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers . |
| 5 | In recent months their flagrantly communal slogans ( 'Say it with pride — I am a Hindu' ) have propelled them to significant gains in municipal and other elections . |
| 6 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 7 | Reports of ‘ untoward occurrences ’ — anything from an allegation of assault to a staff member having a cold — were not going directly to Mr Thomson , who was legally bound to report them to social services within 24 hours . |
| 8 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 9 | The fact that investment trusts do not continually take in new funds and channel them to ultimate borrowers obviously raises the question of whether they should be considered as financial intermediaries at all . |
| 10 | We got to thinking that if we came to Los Angeles regularly we could make these shows all the time and send them to English-speaking countries all over the world . |
| 11 | Most often , they were souls of jilted girls who visited their erstwhile lovers while they slept , stimulating them to nocturnal emissions and general restlessness . |
| 12 | They have to compete for telescope time , to make sure that no one beats them to crucial measurements . |
| 13 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 14 | There are problems with designating these as new phyla , not least that nobody can define a phylum objectively , and my own view is that , marvellous though these animals are , we should still try to relate them to other organisms ( fossil and living ) . |
| 15 | I think candidates who are thinking of applying for entry in nineteen eighty-five , who are now say seventeen coming on eighteen , have got three or four years ahead of them at university , which is a considerable time , and if nothing else , university will make them question themselves , what their interests are , and they 'll introduce them to new subjects , new areas of study , and it may be a mistake to embark on a vocational course , and discover halfway through that actually it 's not what you want to do . |
| 16 | The emphasis within this degree is on acquiring analytic techniques , and applying them to real-world problems . |
| 17 | The idea , of course is not to elucidate dependent conditionals by relating them to causal statements and the like , but to do just the opposite . |
| 18 | Considering each of the quadrants in turn and relating them to various types of work , we arrive at the following conclusions . |
| 19 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 20 | They were , generally speaking , well informed about international politics and had a sceptical attitude to news ; they discussed their government 's internal policies and decrees , in particular relating them to different conceptions of government , freedom and justice : their talk of socialism , democracy , dictatorship was by no means purely theoretical . |
| 21 | The appraisal of staff in the context of development and motivation is concerned with managing individual perceptions and relating them to organisational needs . |
| 22 | If Peggy can not offer dinner she will direct you to local pubs and restaurants . |
| 23 | At the very least , spotting conflicting goals will alert you to potential problems . |
| 24 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 25 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 26 | James 's increasing financial difficulties impelled him to desperate measures . |
| 27 | Since the conventions offer an imperfect guide to the subject at hand , it is necessary to look at some of the other types of sources which are generally recognised as being useful in establishing what the law is , and in relating it to specific situations and technical developments . |
| 28 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 29 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 30 | Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome . |